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If 10,000 Biters buy a bar of soap instead of a container of the liquid stuff, we'll avert the weight of eight paralegals in packaging waste.
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Guam's bar exam once boasted a 0% pass rate - but then, only three wannabe lawyers actually took it that session.
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The bar soap, that is, 'cuz the verdict's in: Bars are eco-friendlier and cheaper than liquid latherers. Plain(tiff) and simple.The Benefits
- Eco-friendly evidence. In terms of weight, packaging waste accounts for 31% of the waste we send to landfills. Bars use way less.
- Saving to pay your law school loans. Bar soaps cost less than their liquid equivalents.
- An injunction against germs. Studies have found that bar soap (even when you share it with others) keeps you just as clean as liquid.
Personally Speaking
Toshio often washes his hair with bar soap instead of shampoo. His SO says it makes his hair smell like pennies.Wanna Try?
- Skinnyskinny Soap Set - gift-y set of six bars (many made with food-grade ingredients such as exfoliating black pepper), packaged in a zero-waste, book-shaped reusable box, with soaps wrapped in pages of discarded tomes ($48).
- SoapRocks - superlong-lasting, gemstone-inspired soap hunks ($15).
- Sappo Hill Glycerine Crème Soap - inexpensive and made with glycerine and coconut and palm oils; order without packaging for less waste ($2).
Oct 07,2008
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As someone consumed by all of the wonderful nuances of the English language, I tend to favor a great many colorful terms in my everyday vocabulary.
Which means I say words like @#%!, &@$%, and #*%!@ quite often.
My mom was definitely not OK with that when I was a kid. During those occasions whereupon a bar of soap was crammed into my mouth (there were at least three), I was told that the next time "It'll be liquid." Bar soap was unpleasant, yes, but nothing like I imagined liquid soap, the nuclear option of soap mouth washing, would be. So I hit pause on the swearing.
Since Mother Earth clearly disapproves of liquid cleanser - a huge deterrent to childhood cursing - there is only one rational thing to take away from this: The environment likes dirty words. You heard it here first.
-Senior Editor Mike...off to $%^@, &%#$!, and maybe even &*$@...
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Posted by: Suz | October 07, 2008 at 05:17 AM